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On March 26th, the Women’s Major Group delivered the following intervention during the Third Intersessional meeting of the UNCSD to discuss the upcoming Rio+20 convening in June: We, the Women’s Major Group, are deeply concerned about the pace and state of the negotiations of the past week. Let me...Read more

On International Women's Day more than 10,000 women and men marched through the streets of Paramaribo, Suriname to raise awareness about breast cancer, a leading cause of death for Surinamese women. Taking advantage of the opportunity to distribute information about its cancer prevention and...Read more

In 1997 I was 18 years old and had just moved to Mexico City. Although I had moved away from Zacatecas to study at the university, I also had the desire to fully embrace my sexuality and live as a gay man with dignity. One night when I was feeling alone, far away from the family and friends I’d...Read more

Inspiring a love of reading, writing, and journalism is a difficult task for any 10th grade English teacher, but it's especially difficult for a woman who—at 5 feet tall—is smaller than most of her students. I don't think I fully understood at the time what Barbara Owens was up against. Ms. Owens...Read more

My grandmother, Brígida Concepción Ortega Fleitas, was known to me as Lela. Her 11 children—8 girls and 3 boys—were all born in her home in Arroyos y Esteros, Paraguay. Her first child, María Herminia, who we called Aunt Herminia, passed away when she was just 20 years old. At the time of Minina's...Read more

So many people want to do something good with their time and talent, but often can’t find a way to make it happen. Mamen Saura is not one of them — she has made it her life’s work to use her skills as a professional photographer to give voice to the stories of some of the world's most vulnerable...Read more

I think I peaked pretty early in my career as far as bosses go. I am convinced that Doortje Braeken, the Senior Advisor on Adolescents at IPPF’s Central Office in London, is one of the most dedicated, passionate, and committed women working in the sexual and reproductive health and rights sector...Read more

In 2007, I worked for six months as a volunteer in a slum in Ngong, Kenya. The organization I worked with, Living Positive, in is located in the Rift Valley. It seeks to improve the health and economic status of impoverished women who are living with HIV/AIDS. One of the women in the program was a...Read more

“Do you have a problem with blood?” “No,” I lied. “Great, I have a woman coming tomorrow at 10 am.” That simple exchange left me a changed woman. I was 22 years old and traveling alone in Mexico. I came to stay with a French-Canadian documentary filmmaker and his Mexican doctor wife, whom I'd met...Read more

Although I have never met Ashley Judd, I've been fortunate to hear her message of empowerment and self-worth. For me, this message couldn't have come at a better time. This has been a difficult year for me. A month before I was supposed to make the trying transition into college, I developed a...Read more